• DocumentCode
    578975
  • Title

    Environmental and organizational determinants of technology adoption: The cases of RFID in the logistics firms

  • Author

    Tsai, Wei Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Manage., Aletheia Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    18-20 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    719
  • Lastpage
    724
  • Abstract
    RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), a recently regarded technology, is an appropriate new technology to achieve the goal. This study based environmental and organizational perspectives to explore the adoption determinants of RFID application, in turn, seven constructs were proposed, environmental context as industry competition and external policy support, organizational context includes organization readiness, procedural flexibility and power structure. And the empirical survey was performed that questionnaires were send to 500 Taiwan companies of logistic firms. To use the partial least squares software to perform and verify the research structure proposed. The results of analysis of the survey data are: all paths have significant positive with the RFID adoption model for logistic firms. Thus, we hope the final result is useful to educational circles and practice.
  • Keywords
    least squares approximations; logistics; organisational aspects; radiofrequency identification; service industries; RFID; Taiwan; environmental determinants; external policy support; industry competition; logistics firms; organization power structure; organization procedural flexibility; organization readiness; organizational context; organizational determinants; partial least squares software; radiofrequency identification; technology adoption; Context; Industries; Organizations; Radiofrequency identification; Supply chains; Adoption model; Logistic firms; Radio Frequency Identification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2012 7th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-2118-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIEA.2012.6360819
  • Filename
    6360819